Lawrence Wilson, the presiding judge ordered that the accused persons be taken to prison for seven days or pay a fine of N5, 000 each, in the alternative.
“After reviewing the facts of the cases before me. I hereby convict you all with an option of N5, 000 fine each, which you must pay within seven days or go to jail,” Wilson said. “Your claims that you people were not aware of the environmental sanitation law is not an excuse, because every last Saturday of the month is the sanitation exercise. I am only sentencing you with an option of N5,000 fines each because you all pleaded guilty to the charge.”
Pius Sule, the prosecutor, told the court that the offenders were found loitering during the sanitation exercise.
Sule, who is the Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer of Etsako-Central local government, urged the court to punish the culprits, to serve as a deterrent to others.
The prosecutor informed the court that the offences contravened Section 12, Sub-section 2, of the Edo State Sanitation Law, 1976.
Emma Aludo, the Supervisor for Health and Environment, said that the exercise was a success due to the enlightenment campaigns by the council on the need to observe the exercise.
Aludo said that the sanitation became necessary to forestall flood as well as keep the environment clean for healthy living.
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